Platform DOS Published by PC-SIG Released 1988 Genre Role-Playing (RPG) Pacing Turn-based Perspective Top-down Setting Fantasy Description You are a Battlemage - a Ranadinn : you have the skills of a fighter, a wizard and a cleric. You've arrived at the islands of Argentan as a mercenary, to help repel an inhuman horde from the South. Monsters have settled into caves and abandoned castles, villages are under attack, and one of the four islands has already been conquered. The king has hired you...
Platform DOS Released Oct 15, 1995 Genre Racing / Driving, Strategy/Tactics Pacing Real-Time Perspective Top-down Description Rally-K! Is a single player, shareware, keyboard controlled game that is based on the game Rally-X . You control a small car running around in a maze to capture flags while avoiding hostile cars that try to crash your car. Also within the maze are additional hazards such as rocks and trees that will destroy the car if struck. The player's fuel is limited and when it runs...
Developed by Byulbram Creature Platform DOS Published by Byulbram Creature Released 1994 Genre Action Gameplay Fighting Perspective Side view Description Horangi-eui Bunno 2: Pi, Don, Geurigo Nunmul ("Rage of Tiger 2: Blood, Money, and Tears") is a sequel to Horangi-eui Bunno , Korea's first fighting game. There are two modes in the game: story and "dual" (versus) mode. There are nine controllable characters, but three of them are not available in the beginning, and only the...
Developed by PC Solutions Platform DOS Released 1994 Genre Racing / Driving Pacing Real-Time Perspective Top-down Description Racer is a simple, shareware, single player racing game. The game is entirely keyboard controlled, the player uses the arrow keys to steer their car along a scrolling track collecting power-ups and bonus items while avoiding oil slicks, mines, and other cars. The registered version, which boasts a thousand roads to travel, cheats and infinite lives, was released on PC...
Developed by BASS Software Platform DOS Published by BASS Software Released 1994 Genre Strategy/Tactics Gameplay Board Game Description Board game in which there is a character selected by the computer for you to guess. In the screen you see a board with different cards, each one representing a character, the game gives you hints like hair color, sex, eyes color, etc. and you must guide yourself with them and try to guess who the mysterious character is. You can also switch roles with the...
Platform DOS Published by Kludgeware Released 1987 Genre Action Gameplay Arcade, Shooter Perspective 1st-person Visual 2D scrolling Setting Sci-Fi / Futuristic Description Quantoids of Nebulus IV is a space shooter that sends you on the hunt for loathsome, space-faring business school graduates. The repellent MBAs have ruined the Earth's economies with their myopic quantitative concepts, and now they're rampaging through the galaxy spreading the plague to other planets! To save known space from...
Developed by EM Software Platform DOS Published by EM Software Released 1992 Genre Puzzle Gameplay Cards / Tiles Perspective Top-down Visual Fixed / Flip-screen Description Pyramid is an implementation of the classic card game 'Pyramid Solitaire'. The standard game is a single-player game, but the tour mode can be played against the computer, another player, or as a series of single games. The player is presented with a pyramid of twenty-eight cards. There is also a draw pile and a discard...
Developed by Paragon Software Corporation Platform DOS Published by MicroProse Software, Inc. Released 1990 Genre Action, Racing / Driving Gameplay Shooter Perspective 1st-person, Top-down Narrative Detective / Mystery Misc Licensed Description When his family was gunned down by gangsters, Frank Castle became The Punisher. As Judge, Jury, and Executioner, The Punisher is cleaning up New York City one dead criminal at a time. However, if he can raise $500,000, he can pay off an informant for the...
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Also For 3DO, FM Towns, GP32, Macintosh, PC-98, SEGA Saturn, TurboGrafx CD, Windows Developed by Gainax Co., Ltd. Published by Gainax Co., Ltd. Released Dec 16, 1993 Genre Role-Playing (RPG), Simulation Setting Fantasy Perspective 1st-person, Top-down Art Anime / Manga Description A hero saved the human race from utter annihilation by the gods. This same hero then was charged by the heavens to take care of young seed dropped from there. This seed becomes his daughter, and her guardian will be...
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Also For Amiga, Commodore 64 Developed by Advanced Software Products Published by GameTek, Inc. Released 1990 Genre Simulation Gameplay Game Show / Trivia / Quiz Misc Licensed Description GameTek's home version of the classic game show The Price is Right . Bob Barker and the Beauties are not present, but a multitude of pricing games from the show, as well as the wheel and the showcase, have been faithfully replicated. Four (or a maximum of eight, counting both rounds - the programme suggests...
Also For Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64 Published by Personal Software Services Released 1988 Genre Strategy/Tactics Pacing Real-Time, Turn-based Description Power Struggle allows you to compete against a friend or the computer for World domination as either the West or the East. After choosing your side you are presented with a map of the World. The countries belonging to the West are in green, the countries belonging to the East are red and neutral countries are white. Your aim is to take over...
Developed by RollinSoft Platform DOS Published by RollinSoft Released Apr 05, 1983 Genre Puzzle Perspective Top-down Visual Fixed / Flip-screen Description For maze maniacs who are bored of rectangular layouts and right angles, PolyMaze generates mazes in a multitude of different shapes, from a triangle to a 61-vertex polygon. Mazes are solved by traversing them along a grid, from a point on the perimeter towards the center, and each maze can contain 2 to 18 levels along the way; a later...
Platform DOS Released 1991 Genre Action Gameplay Platform Description Platform Heels is a single player, shareware, platform game in which the player controls a robot called 'Heels' The object of the game is to guide your character Heels through the rooms/levels in this game, avoiding contact with the alien creatures, and not to falling down holes. To progress to the next room/level the player must collect the three stars on screen The game is entirely keyboard controlled, uses character...
Platforms Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, DOS Published by Springboard Software Inc. Released 1983 Genre Educational Educational Math / Logic Description This educational game attempts to endear basic mathematics to young school children by using liberal amounts of... cake. Five mini-games are included, all based on the theme of a bakery, where the sugary dessert can only be prepared by means of solving simple calculations. The first three exercise basic arithmetics through counting,...
Platform DOS Released 1992 Pacing Turn-based Perspective Top-down Genre Strategy/Tactics Interface Point and Select Gameplay Board Game Visual Fixed / Flip-screen Description In Phagefight , you are in control of an army of bacteriophage. Small viral organisms engaged in an epic battle over an area a few microns wide. It is a small turn-based strategy game similar to Ataxx . The board is 7x7 squares, and there are 20 different boards differing in obstacles and initial starting places. In turns,...
Platform DOS Released 1988 Genre Action, Simulation Gameplay Shooter Perspective 1st-person Setting Historical Events, World War II Description Pearl Harbour takes you back to December 7th, 1942 (curiously, that's exactly one year after the historical battle -- then again, hardly the worst case of revisionism in gaming). You're put in charge of an anti-aircraft gun overlooking the waters, just as the first Japanese planes are sighted over the horizon. Your objective: shoot them down before they...
Platform DOS Published by Software Communications, Inc. Released Jun, 1982 Genre Action Gameplay Paddle / Pong Perspective Side view Visual Fixed / Flip-screen Description Written as a 16-line BASIC program published in PC Magazine, PChallenge may be described as Pong without the second player, or Breakout without the bricks, or both. The player controls a paddle, which can be moved along the bottom of the screen to deflect a moving ball and bounce it off the walls; lose all ten balls, and it's...
Developed by Dinamic Multimedia, S.A. Platform DOS Published by Dinamic Multimedia, S.A. Released 1993 Genre Sports, Strategy/Tactics Gameplay Managerial / Business Simulation Perspective 3rd-person (Other) Sport Football (European) / Soccer Misc Licensed Description This is the first game to ever appear titled as "PC Fútbol", although the appearance of the next PC Fútbol made this one to be popularly referred to as "PC Fútbol 2.0", since this next game ( PC Fútbol 3.0...
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Developed by Dinamic Multimedia, S.A. Platform DOS Published by Dinamic Multimedia, S.A. Released 1996 Genre Sports Perspective 3rd-person (Other) Sport Basketball Description This is the fourth instalment in the "PC Basket" series by Dinamic Multimedia. As its predecessors, "PC Basket 4.0" combines a team database with a basket simulator, and it allows the player to browse through the updated (as of 1996) team database, to play a managerial simulation as the owner / coach...
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Developed by Dinamic Multimedia, S.A. Platform DOS Published by Dinamic Multimedia, S.A. Released 1994 Genre Simulation, Sports Perspective 3rd-person (Other), Side view Sport Basketball Misc Licensed Description PC Basket 2.0 is the sequel to PC Basket. This is a managerial game that allows you to take part in the Spanish basketball league as any of the 16 teams that were struggling for the title in the 1993/94 season. You can choose the quintet and also the team tactics, as well as...
Also For Amiga, Atari ST Developed by Omnitrend Software, Inc. Published by Omnitrend Software, Inc. Released 1988 Genre Role-Playing (RPG), Strategy/Tactics Perspective Top-down Setting Fantasy Description The Paladin is the ultimate warrior on the battlefield, he leads forces and is the master of swordsmanship. But Paladins are not born with these abilities. They must be trained and tested in many missions to obtain knighthood. Paladin is an overhead turn-based strategy game played on various...
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Platform DOS Released 2002 Genre Action Gameplay Paddle / Pong Perspective Top-down Description The Paddle is a simple horizontal adaptation of the classic Pong . The game allows to compete with a computer or against a human player. Players control a paddle represented by a red or blue line. Paddles are on the opposite side of the screen, at the top and at the bottom. The game ends when one of the players cannot reflect the ball. From Mobygames.com. Original Entry
Platform DOS Released 1983 Genre Action Gameplay Arcade Perspective Top-down Visual Fixed / Flip-screen Description As the thinly-veiled title suggests, Packman is an overt Pac-Man clone, written in compiled BASIC. The maze is rotated 90 degrees from the original layout, but the idea remains the same: clear each level by munching on dots, collect the occasional prize item for bonus points, and dodge the four ghosts that roam the corridors. The power capsules in the corners will temporarily slow...
Also For Amiga, Atari ST Developed by Mystery Machine, The, Oxford Digital Enterprises Ltd. Published by Empire Software Released 1992 Gameplay Vehicular Combat Simulator, Wargame Perspective 1st-person, Top-down Genre Action, Simulation, Strategy/Tactics Setting Cold War Interface Multiple Units/Characters Control Visual Fixed / Flip-screen Vehicular Tank Description Sequel to the 1990 bestseller game Team Yankee . While using the same split screen interface as the predecessor, the game now...
Developed by STD Research Platform DOS Published by Future Publishing Limited Released Nov, 1988 Genre Action Gameplay Platform Description Osbit is a single-player, freeware, keyboard controlled, runny jumpy platform game. Osbit is an operating system bit who lives inside a computer. After a power surge struck the computer Osbit found himself a long way from home and must now fight his way, the power surge released nasty bugs, through the three levels of corrupted areas of DOS back to the...
Platforms DOS, Thomson MO, Thomson TO Developed by D&L; Research Published by France Image Logiciel Released 1985 Genre Sports Perspective Side view Sport Football (European) / Soccer Misc Licensed Description Numero 10 refers to the shirt number of French football star (and later UEFA president) Michel Platini who here gets his own football game. Except for Platini's name and picture on the title screen there are no real teams and players featured. The game features only single matches...
Developed by SoftLab Laboratories Platform DOS Published by SoftLab Laboratories Released 1991 Genre Action, Adventure, Role-Playing (RPG) Gameplay Shooter Perspective 1st-person Narrative Spy / Espionage Description The Nine Lives of Secret Agent Katt is a role playing game with adventure and action elements mixed in. Your team consists of 4 spies, each with their own talents, tools and weapons: Katt (the leader), Tia, Roco and Mad Dog. Your primary mission: to recover stolen documents from a...
Also For 3DO, Macintosh, SEGA 32X, SEGA CD Developed by Digital Pictures, Inc. Published by Digital Pictures, Inc. Released 1994 Perspective 1st-person Narrative Horror Genre Puzzle ESRB Rating Mature Interface Point and Select Art Full Motion Video (FMV) Description Five girls go to a party to a nice house on a lakeside. Five girls disappear without a trace... Now another five girls go there, in order to spend the vacation with the Martins, the owners of the house, in particular with the...
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Developed by Rowan Software Ltd. Platform DOS Published by Empire Interactive Entertainment Released 1996 Genre Action, Simulation, Strategy/Tactics Gameplay Shooter Narrative Spy / Espionage Vehicular Flight / Aviation, Naval / Watercraft ESRB Rating Kids to Adults Description In Navy Strike you have the chance of either being a pilot and going out on dogfight missions to improve your ranking, or being a strategist, and deciding how the fighting is done, when and where, while keeping track of...
Also For Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MSX, ZX Spectrum Developed by Teque Software Development Ltd. Published by Abersoft Limited Released 1993 Genre Action Gameplay Arcade, Puzzle elements Perspective Side view Visual Fixed / Flip-screen Misc Licensed Description The characters from the 60s TV series The Munsters have been transported away to a mysterious castle. Playing as different members of the family in succession, the player must rescue them. As you walk through each room,...
Platforms Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, DOS, MSX, ZX Spectrum Developed by Opera Soft S.A. Published by Opera Soft S.A. Released 1990 Genre Sports Perspective 3rd-person (Other), Top-down Sport Football (European) / Soccer Description The world cup of Opera gathers the confrontations of the twenty-four teams which participated in Italy '90, besides offering options of pre-world cup, training and demo mode. If we chose the last one, we will see the computer playing all the matches in the same order...
Developed by Software Creations Platform DOS Published by Software Creations Released 1992 Genre Strategy/Tactics Perspective 1st-person Description Movies Trivia is a shareware, or "try before you buy", quiz game for up to four players. This is a 'Trivia Shell' game meaning that the basic software can be applied to many different subjects by changing the load screen and question packs. The game has three levels of difficulty which it applies to the same question pack. For example...
Developed by Gebelli Software, Inc. Platform PC Booter Published by IBM Released 1983 Genre Action Gameplay Arcade Perspective Top-down Description Mouser is a maze game with an overhead view similar to Pac-Man. The object of the game is to help the farmer rid his farm of mice. To do this the player must move the walls of the maze around to corner the mice, allowing their cat to take care of them. If a female mouse gets to a piece of cheese, it will reproduce and the player will have even more...
Also For Windows Developed by Moraffware Released 1992 Genre Puzzle Gameplay Cards / Tiles, Tile Matching Puzzle Perspective Top-down Visual Fixed / Flip-screen Description Moraff's Morejongg is a single player, shareware, Mahjong game. This game has twenty different tile layouts, several different tile sets including traditional, monster, letters, words and colours, in addition the colours used on the tile sets can be changed to make them easier to see. The game is played entirely with the...
Platform DOS Published by International PC Owners Released 1982 Genre Action Gameplay Arcade Perspective Side view Visual Fixed / Flip-screen Description For reasons undisclosed, the Earth is under attack by missles (sic) from another planet. As the unexplainably-hostile aliens rain down devastation from the sky, it's your job to stop the warheads from striking the surface. Enemy projectiles appear at the top of the screen, and weave a somewhat random path towards the bottom. There, you must...
Developed by The Black Hazard Platform DOS Released Mar 28, 1997 Genre Action Gameplay Artillery, Shooter Perspective Top-down Visual 2D scrolling Setting Sci-Fi / Futuristic Description Mission Mopreme 32K is a vertical scrolling shooter game with a futuristic theme. As is typical for the genre, the player's main objective is to fight waves of enemy airborne fighters, ground vehicles and defence installations while dodging their attacks and picking power ups. The player's ship is equipped with...
Platforms Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, DOS, Thomson TO Developed by Loriciels Published by Loriciels Released 1987 Genre Action Gameplay Arcade, Shooter Setting Cyberpunk / Dark Sci-Fi Visual Isometric Description In this isometric action game you are an agent in combining suit with laser helmet, descended to a factory to find and kill another agent Halox, who stole the formula for the bomb MEGATRON and who wanted to sell it to enemies. You should explore 80 rooms, walking from one room to another....
Platforms DOS, PC-98 Developed by Bruce Artwick Organization Ltd., The Published by Microsoft Corporation Released 1993 Genre Simulation Vehicular Flight / Aviation Description The fifth take on the Flight Simulator series. This version added SVGA graphics, textures in certain areas, sound card support, and two new flight areas, Paris and Munich. This was the final DOS-only release. From Mobygames.com. Original Entry
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Platforms Apple II, Commodore 64, DOS, TRS-80 CoCo Developed by Rochester School District, Sunburst Communications Inc. Published by Sunburst Communications Inc. Released 1983 Genre Educational Gameplay Mental training Setting Medieval Interface Text Parser Visual Fixed / Flip-screen Description Memory Castle is an educational game where the player is a knight who has to enter and accomplish tasks in a castle. The game gives instructions to the player who has to memorize them. The player is...
Developed by Pie in the Sky Software Platform DOS Published by Pie in the Sky Software Released Mar, 1995 Genre Action Gameplay Shooter Perspective 1st-person Description Meltdown is a first-person shooter game that was released by Pie in the Sky Software to showcase its 3D Game Creation System. The main objective of the game is to escape from an unspecified compound. In order to do this, the player needs to obtain the elevator key, which is protected by an energy barrier. Several weapons can...
Developed by Nikita Ltd. Platform DOS Published by IFTECH Software AB Released Dec, 1992 Genre Action Gameplay Arcade Perspective Side view Visual Fixed / Flip-screen Setting Sci-Fi / Futuristic Description This New Year 1993-themed game features Santa Claus and his encounter of the third kind. Flying at the bottom of the screen, Santa Klaus throws wrenches from his sleigh to the rockets of two aliens flying at the top of the screen. The only player's action is "to throw a wrench",...
Platforms Amiga, Apple IIgs, DOS, Macintosh Developed by Lawrence Productions, Inc. Published by Lawrence Productions, Inc. Released 1990 Genre Educational Perspective 3rd-person (Other) Educational Pre-school / Toddler Description McGee is an educational game for young children (ages 2 to 6). The game is entirely wordless and tells its story through graphics and sound making it possible for the child to play the game without help from an adult. The idea is that the child in this way should...
Platforms Apple II, Atari 8-bit, PC Booter Developed by DesignWare, Inc. Published by D. C. Heath and Company, DesignWare, Inc. Released 1983 Genre Action, Educational, Puzzle Perspective Top-down Educational Math / Logic Description As a fly trapped in a maze, you run through the passageways, picking up the numbers that answer the math problems posed at the bottom of the screen. This game leads to some very fast action, especially with the spider, who will chase you down and kill you. This...
Platform DOS Published by Expert Source Code, Inc. Released May, 1991 Genre Strategy/Tactics Gameplay Cards / Tiles Description Match 'Em is a shareware, one or two player Concentration style game. It is played on an 8x8 grid and players take turns to reveal two pictures at a time. If they match the player gets another turn. The winner of the game is the player who matches the most pairs. The game is played entirely with the mouse, has optional sound effects, and three levels of difficulty....
Platform DOS Released 1989 Genre Puzzle Pacing Real-Time Perspective Top-down Gameplay Cards / Tiles, Tile Matching Puzzle Visual Fixed / Flip-screen Description Mah Jongg -V-G-A- is a single player, shareware, implementation of the Chinese tile matching game. This game is played with the mouse and game play is the same as most other games of this genre. The shareware game comes with a single layout and three tile sets, Standard, Christmas '89 and Pirates!, was user created. The game was...
Official Site MagiDuck Platform DOS Released Apr 07, 2018 Gameplay Platform Perspective Side view Genre Action Setting Fantasy Interface Direct Control Visual 2D scrolling Description MagiDuck is a 2D scrolling platform game for the original IBM PC with a CGA card. It uses a tweaked 40x25 text mode to achieve a graphical resolution of 80x50 with 16 colours. The protagonist is a little duck who tries to find out who attacked her family castle, while her family is away. She can jump and shoot...
Platforms DOS, Linux, Windows Developed by Maddox Games Published by Auric Vision Ltd. Released 1997 Genre Action Gameplay Shooter Perspective 1st-person Setting Sci-Fi / Futuristic Description Humanity is in an intergalactic war with hostile aliens. You command a ship that, after a space battle, boards the alien mothership. Inside, you can fly or walk through the MadSpace where the laws of physics at times don't apply. There are some pre-rendered interactive sections and cutscenes viewable in...
Platform DOS Released Mar 15, 1995 Genre Action Perspective Side view Visual Fixed / Flip-screen Vehicular Space Flight Description Lunar Lander is a single player game based on one of the truly classic games. In this implementation the keyboard controls the craft's attitude and the mouse controls the thrust The objective in this game is to land a craft on each of the planet's bases to refuel and to score points. Very good landings earn the player diamonds, these can be converted into fuel...
Also For Amiga, Atari ST, CDTV, FM Towns, Linux, Macintosh, TurboGrafx CD, Windows Developed by Lucasfilm Games LLC Published by Lucasfilm Games LLC Released 1990 Gameplay Graphic Adventure, Puzzle elements Perspective Side view Genre Adventure Setting Fantasy Interface Point and Select Visual 2D scrolling Description The Age of the Great Guilds has arrived. Communities and states comprised of people united by a common trade were created. The Guild of Weavers has achieved such mastery in their...
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